Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of The Red Eagle, Iii Class With Bow, C.1900 United Republic of A well-preserved Reich Forestry Service

A well-preserved Reich Forestry Service (Reichsforstdienst) officer’s visor cap

all set on a 105 mm-long magnetic metal bar with a horizontal pinback and red felt backer

without cloth backing

buckle is maker marked on reverse FLL 40 (1940)

Prussia, Kingdom. An Order Of The Red Eagle, Iii Class With Bow, C.1900 United Republic of A well-preserved Reich Forestry Service(Roter Adler Orden, III. Klasse mit Schleife). Instituted 12 June 1792 by King Friedrich Wilhelm II. (1892 1918 issue). Constructed of gilded silver with multi coloured enamels, consisting of a Cross Patte with white enameled arms, the obverse with a central white enameled disc bearing a hand painted Hohenzollern imperial eagle, within a gilt ring, the reverse with a central white enameled disc bearing a gilt monogram of King Friedrich Wilhelm II,